Cinema art differs from other fields as it is the most open field to everyone. Anyone, a representative of any profession can fit into the role of a director and this is a completely usual thing in the history of cinema. Franko Zeffirelli was an architect, Otar Ioseliani was a mathematician, and Christopher Nolan was a philologist of the English language. All this is explained by the fact that...
The main component of a film is the closely related story line. In order to consider a film completed, it is necessary to raise some kind of conflict in it and the developed events should be similar to the ways of its resolution. Ioseb (Soso) Bliadze's film "A Room Of My Own" (2022) does not fit these standards. It's not a single film, but a collage of two films and several themes, and it's missing more than enough to make it look like a complete, edited, composite work. The main storyline of the first part depicts Beka and Tina’s love story. "Love" is said a little too loudly. Their relationship is far from...
The Use of mythological symbols in world cinema is not really new. Fortunately, some similar examples can be found in recent Georgian cinema. One of them is Sandro Suladze's short film, "The Watchers" (2021) which deals with this issue from a different perspective. Georgian diverse mythological characters allow to present the topic in many ways. After all, every region...
In many cases, the director captures what worries him, what he has seen or experienced, he fills the film with personal details and never shies away from subjectivity. Luka Kopaleishvili's student documentary, "A Little Bit About My Father" (2022), is clearly a personal work, where the author tells us about his father. Definitely, this is a subjective work, the story of the director's family – a difficult, sad but interesting situation in which he lives. The director's father becomes the main protagonist, however, the film does not leave the feeling that the author is only telling his own story. It is already clear from...
Nana Jorjadze is an architect by her first profession. And she worked in this field but her versatility of an artist gave cinema a privilege, and Georgian cinema was really lucky to have a creator who was different from everyone else. Her films are distinguished by unexpectedness, sincerity and boldness. Not only did she introduce a completely different film language, but also brought many awards to Georgian cinema, including two for the first time: in ...
It is natural that when the primary source of the film is literature and new and very popular at the same time, one can't avoid comparisons, and I can say from the very beginning that in this comparison, the film "Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry" (2023) by Elene Naveriani is not a loser. To be honest, I am not a huge admirer of Tamta Melashvili's novel. Many of the things in it seemed to me too constructed, illustrating current ...
Everyone creates a work based on what they know and have experienced, and the plot does not matter. No matter how much they talk, Rusudan Glurjidze's film ”House of Others" (2016) is neither about Abkhazia and its conflict, nor about Abkhazians. This is about the author’s feelings, about the difference caused by a change of your environment, when your lively and bright native city ...
In all the annotations of Giorgi Mrevlishvili's documentary film, "Twelve Lessons" (2019), we come across the statement that "the film tells grandpa Valeri’s story, who lives in Guria and uses various ways to integrate his autistic grandson into society..." etc. Each time we watch the world built by Valery Kotrikadze's love and labor on a documentary screen or in a TV story, we still get the feeling that this world might ...
Georgian cinema is alive, independent and political and it exists in new dimensions judging from few films out of several that have been shot in recent years. Of course, there might have been more, but we cannot replace desire and reality with illusions. Reliable "prolapses" can be taken as a sign of (part of) the new generation of directors – non-banal, not stereotypical, free thinking ...
Georgian cinema has become much more interesting, refined and versatile. Many young and talented directors joined it. Dark, depressive films of the same topic, created at the end of the last century and the beginning of the new one, have moved back. The screen lit up, got colored, the image became sharper, the number of films also increased and they started marching upright in the international arena...